I don’t know how things are in Norway, but there has been some backlash against service dogs because some people will claim their dog is a service animal when it really isn’t so they can take it in restaurants, on airplanes, etc. It is making it more difficult for people who really need a service dog. They used to be accepted without question and now they are getting looked at as though they are a bother.

Yes, me too. I think the point of the ad is not that only dogs should be service dogs, but that restaurants and busses and stuff should be glad they don’t have to put up with bulls or ducks or donkeys as service animals. XD

Apparently it has to do with recent immigration from countries/cultures that don’t have a service-dog tradition and the situation that creates, for example, taxi drivers refusing to take on passengers with service dogs.

We used to see a man with a mini service horse and it wore little “tennis shoes”. Too cute! I haven’t seen them around lately. The shoes were to keep the horse from slipping on and chipping the tile floor where the man worked.